IMPERIAL POLITICS.
London, October 18. »n tno House of Commons the Eight Hon. W. Hayes-Fisher’s amendment .an the Home Rule Bill, providing that wjnie Ireland should be free with regard to internal taxation she should prevented from exploiting Impor,ui taxation was rejected. . Mr Cathcart Wason opposed Irish control or Customs and Excise. Hhere was a vigorous debate on the proposal to establish a separate Irish oostal system, which was carried by a majority of 79, after Sir Ruins Isaacs had given an assurance > that cue control or the Irish Post Office in war tune could be secured to the Imperial Parliament by Order-in-Coun-
-nr E. Carson ridiculed the suggestion that an Order-in-Couucil could, jsve control of Irish telegraphs in
i n- time, and taunted the Government with giving a quarter of a mil..,U to j.reiunu to establish a local pc star system.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 47, 19 October 1912, Page 5
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